Good day all. It seems that regulators in the United Kingdom have some issues with Fox News’s Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity. They think that they aren’t “Balanced” in their views.
Now I watch Tucker Carlson on occasion, and now that Hannity is in a new time slot, I occasionally watch him as well. I never for one minute thought that they were impartial. That isn’t their job. They have an opinion, and they bring people on that either agree or disagree and then debate them. Now it seems that these regulators, who seem to think that the 1st Amendment doesn’t apply in the United States, should do something about these two. Here are the details from CNN:
The British media regulator Ofcom has declared some segments from Fox News hosts Sean Hannity and Tucker Carlson in breach of the country’s media impartiality rules.
And we care about this, why?
Though parent company 21st Century Fox pulled Fox News from the U.K. in August, Ofcom is obliged to reply to complaints it receives. The rulings, released on Monday, are based off complaints Ofcom received after a segment on Hannity’s show about President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting travel from seven majority-Muslim countries and a segment on Carlson’s show about the reaction of U.K. authorities to the Manchester terrorist attack on May 22
Yeah, so? I didn’t see the segments, but frankly, I can hazard a guess as to what they said. Britain is slowly circling the drain along with the rest of Europe and has put their citizens into actual danger due to their policies of appeasing Islamic thugs. They’ve even gone so far as to allow British teenage girls to be pimped out by Muslims, and gone after parents and the victims when they brought complaints to the authorities.
Beyond the official censure, Ofcom isn’t issuing a fine of any sort to Fox, saying it is simply following through with its official compliance procedure after investigating complaints it receives. Nonetheless, the censures come as parent company 21st Century Fox is being investigated by another U.K. media regulator, the Competitions and Markets Authority, as it tries to complete a $15 billion takeover of the part of U.K. telecommunications and broadcasting company Sky plc it doesn’t already own. The CMA is in the middle of a six month investigation into how the takeover will affect the media market in the U.K. and whether the company would maintain broadcasting standards.
I see what’s happening. They are looking for the typical Eurotrash “Pay us or else” extortion racket with companies trying to grow. Typical Eurotrash socialism and Fascism.
Ofcom said Hannity’s opening monologue on Jan. 31 about Trump’s executive order did not appropriately consider alternative viewpoints.
So what? Who cares what you think. We used to have the “Fairness” Doctrine here and it was great at suppressing viewpoints that didn’t tow the government line. Once President Reagan tossed it, Broadcast radio exploded. People who had been suppressed were suddenly able to put out their point of view. This gave rise to people like Hannity, Carlson and Rush Limbaugh. As for other viewpoints? They have their own places to go, although they are often invited onto the Carlson and Hannity shows for the comic relief their idiotic views generate.
Though Ofcom acknowledged that viewers are likely aware that Fox is a U.S. based channel aimed at a U.S. audience, and that Hannity is likely to address issues from a perspective that is more supportive of the Republican party, it found that the segment was in violation of three of its rules on impartiality.
On May 25, Carlson discussed the reaction of U.K. authorities to the Manchester terrorist attack on 22 May 2017. Carlson, Ofcom said, made critical statements about Prime Minister Theresa May and many other U.K. and Manchester officials, saying they had “done nothing” to counter terrorism, stop radicalization or protect citizens from terrorism and other abuses. He also argued that their “inaction was motivated by political correctness” and that they were forcing an “official lie” on citizens which as “totalitarian” and “wicked.”
The truth hurts doesn’t it?
“There was no reflection of the views of the U.K. Government or any of the authorities or people criticised, which we would have expected given the nature and amount of criticism of them in the program,” Ofcom said. “The presenter did not challenge the views of his contributors, instead, he reinforced their views.”
Now, Fox has pulled out of the U.K. The shows in question are aimed at Americans, not the British. And, being the typical American, I don’t care what you think. If you don’t like what’s being said, then turn the channel. We stopped paying attention to what you wanted quite a few decades ago. Now why don’t you go away and bother someone who might actually care what you have to say.
Thatisall
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